Monday, August 01, 2005

Assuming Pronk has a good rehab start in Akron tonight, he should be in Tuesday's lineup against Al Leiter and the Yankees. B-Phil was sent down to Buffalo to make room for the big North Dakotan today.

With Hafner's return, it will be interesting to see what Wedge does with the lineup. This is the way that I see the lineup shaking out:CF - SuperSizemoreLF - CocoDH - PronkoC - The StickSS - Peralta1B - Broussard2B - Belliard3B - BooneRF - Dubois

I'm still at a loss for what to do with Broussard, but (unbelievably) he's suddenly the left handed bat to break up the right handers at the bottom of the lineup.

With the Yankees still hurting in the rotation, it's time for the Tribe to make a statement that they're in this Wild Card race for the long term. Taking the series from the Yanks would (finally) force the boys from Baseball Tonight to pay attention to the Tribe and their relevance in the Wild Card.

Hopefully, it will also drown out the inevitable thousands of Yankees fans who make their homes in Cleveland who will cheer on "their" team. You know, the one that they followed through the lean 80's and early 90s. If you go to a game, challenge a "big Bombers fan" to name their shortstop before Jeter. It was Tony Fernandez, whose double play partner in 1995 was the memorable Pat Kelly.

There is nothing in this world more infuriating than the fan who loves the Yankees/Bulls/Cowboys/Duke/Miami or any combination of random geographic teams only because they've "always been huge fans of those teams".

Raffy Palmiero's suspension is only surprising in that he got caught.

Here's a philosophical debate: Palmiero (allegedly) began taking steroids in 1992, when he met Jose Canseco in Texas. Through 1992, he had made $5,989,500 in his career with a career high in HRs of 26. Since then, he has made $80,306,496 for a career total of $86,295,996.

If you could make that much money by breaking the rules, never have to give back the money, and only live with the humiliation IF you got caught, would you take steroids?

9 comments:

technically, most of those years he wasn't breaking the rules because there were no rules. he is an idiot for getting caught now...after going to the hearing and appearing in jose's book...i think the o's can be officially crossed off the wild-card list after losing 14 of 16 culminated by a brutal sweep by the south side jerks

as we learned last year with mr. lee, young pitchers will burn out when the season keeps going past what their used to...and zito can't pitch every night. can't wait to finally get to watch a game tomorrow night...hopefully a 5 run lead will hold up tonight